Singularity

Commentary by Roger Oakland at Understand The Times International: Roger Oakland Ministries A trend is sweeping the world that has the potential of impacting every person on the planet. It will mandate the way we buy or sell consumer products or identify our location as we move from place to place. Rarely a day goes…

by Terry James Doomsday talk is on the rise. It brings to mind the 1964 movie filmed in stark black and white on the topic of nuclear war, entitled Dr. Strangelove. This was a darkly humorous film that captured the fearful times at the height of the Cold War involving America and the Soviet Union.…

by Terry James Watchmen on the wall should be alert as never before. It is becoming clearer by the day. The self-appointed governing elitists of planet earth are using the slothful inclination of fallen mankind as fuel for the engine of their drive toward a new world order. We witness time after time the bringing…

by Greg White The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is in the process of making a neural-coding device capable of controlling artificial limbs when seeded in the brain. The device has had success in animal studies and the first human trials are set for 2017. The Pentagon has subsidized the institution $62 million to…

The Wire – Will the Second Iteration of the Human Genome Project Usher in Greater Innovation? by BY BINAY PANDA HGP-Write has been envisioned as an effort to synthesise one nucleotide at a time to piece together the entire human genome. What could go wrong? On June 2, 2016, scientists from multiple academic institutions in…

by SARAH K. BURRIS A federal safety and ethics panel at the National Institute of Health approved the first ever clinical trial involving gene-editing of human cells using the technology Crispr-Cas9. Crispr-Cas9 is a “gene editor” and short for “clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats.” The work is part of the “moon shot” to end…

Intelligence project aims to reverse engineer the brain to find algorithms that allow computers to think more like humans By Jordana Cepelewicz Three decades ago, the U.S. government launched the Human Genome Project, a 13-year endeavor to sequence and map all the genes of the human species. Although initially met with skepticism and even opposition,…